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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Shetland Ponies.

j. R. Meiklejohn, from the Brassay
island, one of the most important ISL
ands of the Shetland group, is in this
city, says the New York I9a6uue He
is the representative of the marquis of
Londonderry at the Shetland islands,
where the marquis has large live stock
interests, and is also a regular and ex-
tensive breeder of the -blooded
Shetland pony, which is becoming so
popular in this country. He said:
About fifteen years ago the marquis
Of Londonderry organized his breed
ing establishment on Brassay island,
as the crofters paid no attention or
care in breeding marketable animals.
By careful selection of the best stock
then eXtant the marquis established
his foundation herd from which he has
been breeding ever since. The object
which he has had in view was to pro-
duce in this diminutive-sized horse an
animal which should be most perfect
in form and possessing strength and
intelligence. His herd is now COM
posed only of the carefully-selected and
pedigree stock.
Iceland ponies, which are of little
,,
are often sold in the United States as
Shetland ponies, and at times in large
numbers. In fact. more ponies are
sold in the United States in a yepr as
Shetlanders than are bred in that time
on the Shetland islands. American
breeders of thoroughbred horses and
cattle who also breed ponies should
give this Shetland question a little
closer attention, and not take every
pony that is offered as a Shetlander
without some guarantee or positive
proof. What is the best proof? Why,
the ponies themselves. All pure
blooded Shetlanders are small, none of
them more than forty-tWO inches high,
and from that down 30 thirty-two
inches. They are well shaped, short
limbed, bright cOlored. have long
names and tails, and are smooth-coated
after they pass their Sd year. They are
quick, intelligent, docile, and easy to
break for driving or riding, and look
exactly like Clydesdale horses. Why
don't | send some of the marquis
horses to the United States? Well
the fact is that the marquis uses eight
hundred of them at time in his coal
mines in the north of England, and it
takes quite large herd to supply this
demand alone Last year | sent
through Il New York agent fortv-five
ponies for Kentucky, and [ have just
brought a similar lot with me on the
steamer Crystal. They are now rest
ing from the fatigue of their voyage
before being forwarded to their new
owners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
The Spanish Passion Tor Dancing.

I presume that those who have
travelled in Spain hardly realize how
thoroughly that country is given to
the worship of st. Vitus. Says a re-
cent writer: 1.-The dance demon seizes
on Spaniards at all times and under
all circumstances-in the streets, on
the public squares, under the porches
of stately mansions. A peripatetic
musician comes along, stunning his
guitar, and in an instant the maid
servants throw aside their brooms, the
workwomen set down the pitchers they
are carrying to the fountain, the mule
teerS leave their mules, the innkeeper
forgets your dinner, and all spring for
ward, arms akimbo and eyes spark
ling. Their feet just touch the
ground, they balance in unison with
the music, and dance with their souls
az well as with their bodies.
Let q tourist visit Toledo and put
up at the ancient hostelry De Limo,
and let a guitar-player station himself
under the great sombre archway that
Don Quixote himself would not have
passed without foreboding of evil.
He will see with his own eyes how the
natural order of things will be disar-
ranged and everything thrown into
confusion. A fandango will begin in
the court, the kitchen, and the street,
and amid such a hubbub that he will
think he has taken leave of his senses.
lone day at ST. Sebastian the regi-
ment passed by with band at its
head. A fandango was played.
Even the children who had been
industriously engaged in making dirt
pies pricked up their ears, caught each
other by the waist, and tried to go
through the steps. Their nurses Joined
in swapping their fingers. The pass
ers by came to the assistance of the
nurses. The soldiers themselves
couldn't stand the temptation, but fell
out of the ranks and mingled in the
dance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

to pasture. Tie rats being thus de-
prived of their sustenance, abandoned
the mine and took up their quarters
about the miners houses, where they be-
came a terror to the families. The strike
continued and the supplies of the men
became exhausted. Miners at neigh
boring collieries who were at work re-
sponded to the requests of their strik-
ing brethren for aid and sent them a
wagon load of supplies of various kinds.
These were taken in charge by COM
mittee and stored in building, from
which they were to be distributed to
the neediest of the miners. The first
night the store was raided by rats and
everything devoured or carried away.
Four different loads of supplies were
furnished in this way, but the rats got
the biggest share of them. A good
many of the miners kept COWS at the
time, there being plenty of free pastur-
age about the place, but soon after the
strike began to lessen their yield of
milk. This could not be understood
until one morning a miner went to his
barnyard and discovered half dozen
big rats sucking the milk from his
cow as she lay on the ground. These
combinations against them at last
forced the strikers to weaken, and they
finally went to work on such terms as
they could obtain, absolutely beaten by
the devouring horde of rats"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
"A New journal Box.

A Journal-box" to railroad men,
is the box at the center of every wheel
to car. 1t is where the end of the
axle comes and is filled with cotton
waste saturated with oil. The oil
| dripS through the waste and reaches
the axle which it lubricates after
fashion and so prevents friction.
Stlll "hot boxes are common thing,
and the trouble and cost of keeping
the boxes filled with waste and oil is
an important item among the bur-
dens railroad companies have to bear.
The amount expended annually by the
railroads of this country in keeping
boxes in condition amounts in the ao-
gIegate to many millions.
Yesterday afternoon a group COM
posed of railroad men and others as
sembled at the Rock Island depot to
test the quality of new sort of Jour
nal box. 1t is what is known as the
''Sharpneck anti-friction iournal-box,"
and is the invention of a Chicaooan.
1t is novel thing. The cotton waste
and the oil are all done away with, no
lubrlcator is employed; the box is q
box full of chilled steel rollers. The
invention may be described in a gem
eral way as follows: The axle of the
car rests not upon the ordinary bear
ing, but upon steel rollers enclosed
and revolving IN cylinder surround
ing them. Through each of these
rollers-three inches in diameter-ex-
tends a steel pin, the rollers themselves
being not solid, but each a cylinder
enclosing solid rollers which revolve
hon tl,x,, l. =
ply a collection of steel rollers re-
volving separately but together about
a common center, the axle, and with
it. There is no friction anywhere
The box is practical complication
OF the slangy expression, everything
goes"
The test made the railroad men en-
thusiastic. The great saving in avoid
ing lubricating seemed a minor con-
sideration with them. They wanted
something to enable the easy starting
of train and something to enable it
to run easily when started, something
to obviate the enormous strain upon
and wear and tear of engines. The
train ran to Joliet and back, covering
twenty-five miles in twenty-seven min
utes at one stage of the trip. The
boxes worked well and after the re-
turn the test of ''dynometer, "a
machine used to determine the power
required to start car or train-was
applied. The result was rather sur
prising. With the old style journal
boxes $50 pounds of power was re-
quired to start a car; with the inn
proved boxes fifty pounds of power
proved sufficient. One man moved
the car back and forth almost as if it
were a hand-cart. The dynometer de-
clared the invention something phe-
nomenal.
1t is considered more than possible
by some of the railroad men present
that the new journal-box may cause a
complete revolution in one part of
car-building. The test of time is all
that the invention now lacks. Of
course the novel boxes are not apple
able to the wheels of railroad Nars
alone, but to street-car and wagon
wheels, line shafting, and in face to
almost everything that revolves for
mechanical uses Chicago yribsule.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Dakota Piety.

A Sioux Falls minister recently went
out to another Dakota town to help
organize a church. On his return his
wife said to him:
Il trust you were successful and
laid the foundation for prosperous
church society"
''Well, I'm afraid I can't say that l
was"
"Why, I don't see what could have
prevented?'
"Tll tell you; | got those together
who appeared to be interested and we
talked the matter over some little
time"
"Well, why don't you 90 on?"
"Why, they didn't appear to be very
enthusiastic, and to test the matter |
said: Gentlemen, | move that we
proceed to organize presbyterian
church. Just then a prominent bust
ness man arose and said: i move to
amend the gentleman's motion so that
instead of a presbyterian church we
organize a board of trade and get up
BOOM Those in favor Of the
amendment said /, will please rise.
You ought to have seen them get up!
Every man stood up except one lame
man, and he was feeling ON the floor
for his crutch. Some got up on the
chairs and one man tried to crawl On
top of the stove. When | came away
they were talking about moving the
cemetery to make room for street.
car line. . Winnjpeg STt5ngS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
A Patient Cured.

People who have to do with the hos
pitfalls and many who do not, even in
the way Of charity, are aware that a
great many characters apply to treat
ment when little or nothing is the mat
ter with them, in order to get free
board for time. A man appeared at
the city hospital few days ago with a
slight scratch on his cheek, near one
OF his eyes. The doctor in the acct
dent ward on the left hand side exam
ined the cas- F., and saw there was moth
ing the matter with the applicant, He
directed nurse to bandage the scratch
however, the man was put to bed and
given good nights rest. Next morn
ing the doctor looked at the scratch
again.
"There's nothing the matter with
you my man." said he; II think you'd
better get on your clothes and go"
''Oh, doctor" moaned the pseudo
sufferer you wouldn't send man in
my condition away? I'm not fit to
leave"
The doctor passed on. When the
head doctor came he was told of the
case.
Come, SAID he. eve Will take care
of him. Together the two men went
to the bed. The nurse removed the
bandageS and the head doctor graTely
examined the scratch near the eye.
All" said he, this is very serious.
There is only one way to get this man
up"
at is serious, assented the younger
doctor. He had found it serious.
Il tell you what we will do, said
the head doctor. s.In order to save
this eye we will do well to cut off the
ear nearest"
''True," said the other; ''true. 1t
would be very wise thing TO do.
We must perform the operation when
we return. 1t would be better to cut
off the ear than to sacrifice the eye"
They went to the next ward.
1.-The ear! the eyew cried the patient
excitedlv, as they passed out of hear
ing. III let those fellows know its
my ear and my eye, and [ amt going
to stay here to be butchered by them.
Here, nurse, give me my clothes!D-
Boston AdCertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
In Love With Love

oh, I'm in love with you, beautiful Lowell
With thy silken hair and thine eyes soft
splendor;
Thy voice is the voice of the turtle dove
Thy smile like the dawn is rosy and tender
dream at night, and dream all the day
OF thy magic pow'r and thy mystic glory;
Thy light wings sparkle on every spray,
And the birds and the brooks sing on thy
story.
feel thou art near me, though hidden from
sight,
Like a beautiful bee on the breast of q
flower;
But Psyche shall lend me her lamp i the
night
And discover sweet love in summers green
bower.
The stars that adorn with flowers of flame
The crystalline steps of the heavenly altar
Be witness that though / but guess at the
name,
Its musical sound I feelingly falter.
Then come, little Rover, come to thy rest
What is the need that thou further shouldst
wander?
Fold thy soft wings DER my hearts rosy nest.
And thou and /, love, shall only grow
fonder.
Henrietta Gardner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Putin g on Frills.

Inadvertently, says writer in the
New York Tribune, have aroused the
Indignation of a great army of young
women who earn their living by sell
ing goods from behind counters by al
luding to them as shop girls. Thereby
| have learned some lessons about the
social structure behind the counters.
L had supposed that the good old
generic English term ''shop girl
might properly be applied to every
woman who sold goods to shopper
1t seems, however, that the young
women of New York who correspond
in position to the male counter
Jumper deem themselves entitled to
be called .'sales ladies" and are even
offended at the term 1tsales woman. "
In their private vocabulary shop
girl is one who works in the factories
The term shop girl, however, will
probable still satisfy the great ma
jority of the people who believe in
plain Anglo-Saxon-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

An Altoona Pa-) dentist was assist
ing in a tooth-filling operation, hold
ing punch to press in the filing
There was vivid flash of lightning
followed Immediately with a loud
crash of thunder Instantly the as
sistant dropped the implement he was
holding in his hand and began to
expectorate vigorously. 1t seems that
he was in line with the electric cur
rent, and that is the way it acted on
him. Telegraph operators. we are
told, frequently have the same ex-
pc-ienee during an electrical storm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
What Allied the Plaster.
.Wan Pat whats the nne

well, Pat. what's the matter?'
'sMatther enough, docther, an ali
ABBOTT that plasther We bed me put on my
back-Oi do be fergittin' the name of
sor." Porous plaster wasn't it?" Eye
may well call id that docther, for it
was the poores' plasther mesilf liver
hearn tell on" ''What was the matter
with it, I'd like to know?" Dade an
id was an ovid one. sor, for as certain
as Ohm tellin' We, id was full of holes,
so id was. Yonkers Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

Some one has propounded the query:
What is the first thing raised IN the
spring." Perhaps we haven't hit the
correct answer, but we should say it is
a poker ante.-LOGeU Citizen.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30
ORDERED TO THE JAIL.
Now Orleans Market.

NEW ORLEANS, April 29.-Flour dull
and dropping; choice SO 1908 80; fancy
81 O0@4 10; extra fancy 81 25@4 So;
Minnesota and winter wheat 81 8O@5 10.
Corn quiet but steady; mixed 48@49c;
yellow, 49@5Oc. Oats quiet and weak ct
364@37c. Corn meal stesdy at 81 20.
Hay unsettled; prime SIS OO@l6 90;
choice SIG 5O@l8 90. Hog products dull.
Pork, Sc SD. Lard, refined, 81 90. Bulk
meats-shoulder Sc 124; long clear and
clear ribs, IS co. Bacon Shoulders,
Sc so; long clear SIS 62t: clear rim, SIS 75
Hams, $l2 OO@l2 %, Whisky quiet at
81 IO@I Is. Coffee demand light but
holders firm. Rice quiet. Cotton seed
products quiet but steady; prime crude
oil 27c offered; summer yellow 351@ sec;
cake and meal $40 OO@20 so. Sugar sLead7,
firm; open kettle, good, fair to prime 48@
sc; centrifugals, off white, 5t@5 1916;
choice yellow clarified 7-I6c. Mo
Iasses steady and firm; centrifugals,
strictly prime to fancy, 28@33c.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30
WOLFE CITY TO FORT WORTH.

ROUSING MEETING HELD TO SECURE THE
ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
Special to the Gazette.
WOLFE CITY, TEX, April ga large
and enthusiastic meeting of our citizens
was held to-day to consider important
questions. DR.. Miller was made chair
man and B. F. Fulkerson secretary.
Mr.. NJ. G. Wolfe, the Peter Smith Of
our city, stated the objects of the meet
ing in plain speech. He said the meet
ing was held to take such steps as would,
with the assistance of other cities, secure
an extension of the St. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas from Wolfe City via Mckinney
to Fort Worth.
DR.. Patterson suggested that commit
tee be appointed to canvass the city.
Mr.. Cowan made an eloquent speech in
favor of the road. He said Wolfe City
could not afford to lose this road, as it
would pass through the richest part of the
state and would be valuable addition to
the city.
Mr.. Turner was of the opinion that if
the directors of the road were shown that
the proposed line passed through the
richest country in Texas it would do more
to secure the road thaD small subsidy.
Mr.. Wolfe said good country was GER
tainly a great inducements, but that some
money was required to build railroads.
Mr.. Bolivar said ne believed Fort
Worth would give more to get the road
by this route than the other, and he sug
gested that one committee be appointed
to visit Mckinney and another to canvass
the city.
Mr.. David said that this route pos
sessed several advantages over that of
other towns Here was an unoCcupied
territory, 8 splendid country, etc. The
right of way through rich black land
would be more inducement to the COM
pany than small bonus.
On motion of Mr.. Bolivar committee
was appointed by the chair to get up
subsidy. The committeeman are Messrs
Bolivar, W. G. Turner, Eckles, Black,
Mahoney, VandreW and Professor Kelley.
On motion NJ. G.. Wolfe was appointed
a committee of one to see McKinney's
citizens.
DIR. Jeringzn, W. B. Turner and Mr..
Glenn were appointed a committee to
visit Blue Ridge and LeOnards in the in
terest of the road.
The secretary was instructed to pre-
pare subscription lists for the committee
which was ready TO 60 to work at once.
The meeting then adjourned to Satur-
day night. Our people are energetic and
active, and are working hard to &C
complish their end.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30
AFTER THE ROCK ISLAND.
A MEETING HELD AT DUBLIN AND A COM
MITTEE APPOINTED.

MEETING HELD AT DUBLIN AND COM
MITTEE APPOINTED.
Special to the Gazette.
DUBLIN, TEX, April 29.-In response
to call issued by our railroad commit
tee q number of delegates met yesterday
to devise ways and means to induce the
building of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad through this section,
viz, to enter Texas at Henrietta; thence
On to Jackboro, Palo Pinto, Dublin, Hamil-
ton, Lampasas, Burnett, BlanCO and thence
to q connection at San Antonio with the
Arkansas Pass Railroad. There was a
great deal of enthusiasm displayed.
Every delegate spoke in very favorable
terms as to what their respective cOmmu-
mites would do. One great
inducement, and very important
one to the railroad company,
is the fact of the opering up of the new
coal mines (the finest in the state) near
Gordon, the product of which is acknOWl-
edged to be superior to the McAlltoter
coal and equal to the Pennsylvania coal
The representative from Palo Pinto cOun-
| ty had fine sample of the coal shipped
here for inspection.
! The various committees decided on the
! following plan Of action: The selection
Of central committee whose duty it shall
be to open up correspondence with the
managers of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad, and to make personal
visit to the towns along the proposed
route, and get up such data as to bcsi-
ness, route, right of way and bonuses.
The committee selected ]. T. Harris and
Captain H. A. Smith of Dublin, and
j. S. Straughn OF Palo Pinto
as that committee, and we learn
they have to-day started correspondence
with the officials of the railroad, with a
view of showing up the advantages of
running their line on the route herein
proposed.
We learn the committee intend sending
! sample of the coal now being mined at
the Johnson Brothers mine in Palo
Pinto county to show up the quality of
the same, which appears to be unlimited
IN quantity. From the various reports
received, we understand that bonus of
at least 100000 and right of way through
the various counties can be guaranteed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30
Fort Smiths Railway Boom.

FORT SMITH, ARK, April 29.-The do
nation of $4,000 and the land required
by the Missouri Pacific was secured to-
day. In consideration of this generous
treatment on the part of our city, the
railroad company has entered into a con-
tract to construct line of road from
this point to Kansas City, and another
southeasterly to New Orleans, besides
building across the river bridge for
railroad and wagon traffic. The outfit
for the bridge is now on the way. The
hotels are crowded with surveying corps
of the Missouri Pacific and Frisco rail-
ways. The surveys for both roads have
already commenced with a large force.
The line west from this point is now being
rapidly constructed. Large bodies
of laborers are arriving daily to engage In
the work. A contest Of quick
but determined character is now being
waged between the roads mentioned for
the possession of the rich but undeVeloped
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30
An Important Clue.

SAN FRANCIso, CAL, April 29.-What
is considered an important clue to the
identity of the train robbers has been OBJ
tanned. A few weeks ago q stranger pur-
chased suit of clothes and in taking of
his old suit to put on the new one letter
dropped from his pocket. The letter was
found by a clerk after his departure. II
gave a description of an accomplish to
the robbery ola train on the Southern
Pacific Road. The confederate was in
structed to get off the train at Nogales
The letter concludes with the words
"Paint your face black, and be sure tc
cover your red hair" and was signed
Freddy" The letter has been given tc
the police authorities.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-30

mineral and agricultural country south
east from here. 1t is reported that Mr..
Gould, having failed to secure the Mem
phis and Little Rock Road, will push the
line under construction from the former
city to Bald Knob directly west to Fort
Smith. The fact of large corps of en-
gineers being at present engaged
in surveying these roads lends color
to the report. Immense tracts of coal
and iron lands have been purchased in
the vicinity of Fort Smith in anticipation
of railroad developments now taking
place, every prominent coal company
connected with the trunk lines of Kansas
and Missouri being represented.
Franchises were granted to four COM
panies proposing the construction st once
of twelve mile motor roads. Bonds were
required by the City Council, which were
quickly and cheerfully given. One of the
principal companies consists of Philadel-
phia capitalists, who are represented by
Frank F. Blair and others.